Cost Control Specialist

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The Cost Control Specialist is responsible for control and oversight of Asset Support related expenditure across the Texas City Manufacturing organization to ensure this is maintained at an optimal spend – typically ~$30m per year. Through rigorous commercial management, ensure all Contractor’s within this area are performing and delivering value – ensure no unsubstantiated costs are incurred by INEOS.

Environment:

Internal:

• Working with multiple teams – Asset, Operations, Maintenance, Turnaround, Finance, Procurement and Engineering Teams.
• Understand the INEOS compliance processes and ensure they are rigorously fulfilled. (i.e. DOA, NCR, Capex Rules)
• Understand and interpret business performance/context and what this may mean for approved budgets and Capex plans.

External:

• Working with Key vendors including teams from different countries
• Economic factors affecting production requirements and operating modes
• Changing Statutory Reporting requirements in the industry
• Changing Industry practices and conditions
• Improving processes and tools in the accurate and timely management of cost

Accountabilities of the job:

• Ensuring compliance with HSSE standards and expectations set through the INEOS Life Saving Rules and 20 Safety Principles.
• Promote safety culture through visible leadership in the field, for example Safety Observation Conversations, Audits and Near Miss reporting.
• Focus heavily on forecasting, team learning, and process improvements.
• Composition and submission of monthly contract labor information for submission to Asset Managers, Asset Support Manager and Site Manager.
• Overall Capex / Projects Cost lead spanning across all Asset teams to report Capex for Texas City site as a whole.
• Perform detailed variance analysis of actual financial results versus plan, forecast, and key performance metrics.
• Ensure operational departments understand and follow policies and procedures.
• Work closely with accounting to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Weekly tracking and reporting to program management and customers.
• Develop and maintain Estimate to Complete (EAC's) across various projects (Cost-Type, T&M, Fixed Price, etc.)
• Serve as the primary interface between assigned and designated departments.
• Drive process improvement and lean initiatives in the supply base to optimize cost.
• Examine data to help with reducing cost in all operations.
• Develop/conduct training of both program and functional staff in cost estimating.
• Monitor project costs and commitment to budget and forecast.
• Design reporting tools to monitor cost of goods sold data.
• Maximize profitability through fixed cost savings initiatives factoring in impact from sourcing strategy shifts and manufacturing practices.
• Assist with the aligning of the preparation of purchase orders and bid specifications.
• Perform schedule risk assessments to identify and mitigate program cost and scheduling risks.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify project risks and track them.
• Contribute to plans for yearly operation’s budgets.
• Manage as applicable all temporary Project Controls resources to ensure appropriate coverage across Assets on Capex, TAR and other special projects.

Required profile:

Level of Education & Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, construction management, project management or finance or 5+ years with TA / Shutdown / Outage cost controller experience in lieu of degree.
• 2+ Years of TA / Shutdown / Outage, Maintenance and Project controls experience.
• 10+ years’ experience working with refinery or major chemical plant.

Experience & Technical Skills:

• Experience in the application of analytical cost and performance management tools.
• Experience with PowerBI, Excel, SAP.
• Experience establishing leading and lagging metrics to monitor health of maintenance performance.

Competencies & Behavioral Skills

• Demonstrated success applying systematic principles to improve effectiveness.
• Makes sound decisions through analysis of complex and/or incomplete data.
• Effective interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates understanding of business context.
• Effectively builds strong working relationships to enable communication and cooperation across all levels of the organization.
• Technical awareness of impact of manufacturing operations on maintenance issues.
• Ability to initiate and drive change.
• Methodical approach to problem solving with an ability to understand the difference between urgency and importance.
• Innovative and forward thinking, with an ability to influence those outside of the direct line.
• Ability to produce highly complex reports in a timely and accurate manner.
• Strategic thinking.
• High level of R&M/Projects/TAR process and working practice knowledge.